Joe Deal Email & Phone Number

Evans, Ga, Us

Augusta, Georgia Area

• Vehicle ownership and accountability of all performance, cost, and quality attributes across gas, electric and lithium powered products.• Executing and implementing platform projects in New Product Development and Quality Improvements that have delivered a 92% revenue growth rate from 2019 to 2023, including a Cost Reduction pipeline worth 5% of annual revenues.• Managing and driving strategies to increase market share by engaging cross functional teams focusing on product and process ideation improvements to foster strategy roadmaps and project pipelines.• Local and International Team development and planning.• Leading business process and data analytics for continuous improvement.

Leadership and direct management of the Club Car CAD & Prototype teams. Advanced the team’s critical skills and capabilities across PTC PLM solutions including physical prototyping technologies to support new product development projects and initiatives. Accountable for all staffing, budget, and department strategies and actions. Site project manager for Windchill implementation to manage all engineering release processes and bill of material communication to MRP systems. Led and facilitated a variety of value stream mapping exercises and lean approaches focused on the engineering bill of material changes process to drive efficiency and accuracy. Directly initiated, managed and implemented additive manufacturing and sheet metal fabrication investments that reduced prototyping project expenses by 8-10X. 3D printing, Water Jet and CNC Press Brake capabilities reduced prototype part turnaround by 75-85%, increased accuracy by 20% and facilitated in-house production quality parts that exceeded new product development project/program quality, cost and delivery goals.

Augusta, Georgia Area

Ownership & accountability of Lean Product Development initiatives and projects supporting the overall business objectives of quality, delivery & cost driving productivity in engineering. Annual savings of $2M annually while ensuring a steady pipeline of $4M+ utilizing A3 facilitation and development including 9-Step problem solving along with competitive tear downs and benchmarking to support ideation and project initiation. Application of Requirements & Risk management to ensure quality project management and VAVE implementation targets are achieved. Initiated and facilitated collaboration across manufacturing and logistics teams to drive DFMA and packaging opportunities for additional productivity across the product lifecycle.

Leadership and accountability for all Product Lifecycle Mgt (PLM) initiatives including Business Process Mgt technology development and implementation for product development. Led a department of 50+ consisting of Bill of Material & Release Coordinators, CAD Admins & Support team along with a Software Team (Visual Studio, .NET, SQL) for internal process, applications and tools development. Extensive background in CAD\PDM & Workflow technologies and approaches for increasing engineering and manufacturing efficiency across the enterprise. Program/project management of business & manufacturing initiatives delivering 65% improvements in data access, visibility and quality. Data analytics & metrics implementation and standardization that increased design quality and delivery by 35%. Continuous improvement initiatives driving quality design methodologies. Engineering Release & Change Mgt process ownership.

Engineering program management on the Ford/Navistar joint venture program. Leading and coordinating engineering releases, issue tracking and resolution, prototype build and launch activities and plant support. Quality improvements of 25% and bill of material error reduction of 35% were achieved. Program team collaboration with Purchasing, Manufacturing, Service Parts and Quality. Broad understanding of manufacturing processes and equipment.

Responsible for technically supporting and maintaining a high proficiency around the entire collaborative product commerce solution suite for Pro/Engineer and Windchill. Included complete product and process lifecycle management applications. Intimate and complete business knowledge and understanding of customer requirements, objectives and initiatives. Increased customer engineering productivity and product development efficiencies by 50-75%. Decreased design cycles times by 40-60% through process and technology applications. Presented solutions via formal presentations, custom demonstrations and pilot projects along with ROI to validate the technology that would be implemented. Post sales support involved ROI, update training, as well as technical support. Extensive understanding of manufacturing processes and equipment.

One of 10 selected employees involved in this Engineering/Pre-Mgt. program that facilitated participation and involvement in various core groups within the company for full company development and awareness. 2-3 months assigments in Chassis Engineering, Springfield Assembly Plant, Information Technology, Truck Reliability Center, Product Litigation and Advanced Vehicle Concept & Development provided rapid learning, application and visibility in the extended enterprise.